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Korean Models Lured by Photographer Who Raped and Attacked, L.A. Cops Say
A man lured predominantly Korean-speaking women he raped, attacked or tried to assault by promising them modeling jobs, the Los Angeles Police Department officials said last night. In at least one case he threatened to call federal immigration authorities on a victim because she wasn't complying, they said. Suspect Jung...@ 7:03 AM On Thu, November 13 -
10 Best Food Documentaries of the 21st Century (So Far)
Food documentaries serve a lot of different purposes. Sometimes they're almost culinary porn, with sumptuous photography and lovingly detailed preparation. Other times, the films can be informative, recounting the horrors of the American diet or the shady dealings behind agribusiness. These films can also be celebratory, focusing on dining establishments...@ 7:07 AM On Thu, November 13 -
Genetically Modified Potato Lowers Cancer Risk
A new potato has been genetically modified to produce less of a potentially cancer-causing chemical when fried. The Innate potato, which was just approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for commercial planting, produces up to 70% less acrylamide, a chemical that is emitted when potatoes are fried to make...@ 8:16 AM On Thu, November 13 -
L.A. City Hall Fights Itself Over Fracking
The battle over fracking in Los Angeles has become a war inside City Hall. In February the City Council voted unanimously to have staffers draft a law that would place a moratorium on hydraulic oil and gas extraction within L.A. Environmentalists pressing for the ban argue that fracking, which injects...@ 8:04 AM On Thu, November 13 -
How a Ragtag Coalition Stops Skyscrapers in Hollywood
Environmental attorney Robert Silverstein must be one lucky man. He has faced down the City of Los Angeles, its teams of attorneys, its deep pockets. And five times in front of five different judges, Silverstein has prevailed in his legal battle against Mayor Eric Garcetti's push to transform Hollywood into...@ 6:03 AM On Thu, November 13 -
Daniel Lanois on His Experimental New Album: "I'm Not Miley Cyrus"
Ace steel guitar man, famed producer (U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Neil Young) and ambient music trailblazer Daniel Lanois’ latest solo album Flesh and Machine is just out on Anti- Records. It’s what you’d call one of those artistic rebirth sorts of things. Lanois is a bit fed up with the...@ 4:30 AM On Thu, November 13 -
Snoop Dogg Sells Swedish Socks, Stays "G'ed Up From the Feet Up"
Snoop Dogg is no longer an active gang member. In fact, renouncing his formerly violent life is what he's about these days, and his Snoop Lion and Snoopzilla personas have sought to showcase a more socially conscious, peace-and-love Dogg. But mainstream America still sees him as rough and tumble, and...@ 5:00 AM On Thu, November 13 -
All or Nothing Is Chef Jess Schenker's Addiction-Fueled Culinary Memoir
Jess Schenker does nothing to dispel the romance of the badass chef in his new culinary memoir All or Nothing: One Chef’s Appetite for the Extreme. In fact, in Schenker’s frank and poignant telling of wretched to riches, gustatory archetypes only get reinforced. Now the successful owner and executive chef...@ 6:03 AM On Thu, November 13 -
John Candy's Daughter Loses Her Stand-Up Comedy Virginity
Jen Candy had never done stand-up comedy when her friend Jeff Garlin convinced her to give it a try. They'd met on the set of a children's show where 34-year-old Candy was hired as a stand-in for Garlin — an odd staffing choice considering that the two actors look nothing...@ 3:41 AM On Thu, November 13 -
Culture Club Cancel U.S. Tour, Including Show at the Shrine
The reunited original lineup of Culture Club have been forced to cancel all of their upcoming U.K. and North American tour dates, after doctors discovered a polyp in singer Boy George's throat. The canceled dates include a scheduled stop at the Shrine Auditorium next Wednesday, November 19. Tickets refunds will...@ 9:16 AM On Thu, November 13 -
L.A.'s BDSM Power Couple, and Their Sex Dungeon
Nina Hartley and Ernest Greene never have sex in the bedroom. Their MacArthur Park loft has seen more than its fair share of intertwined naked bodies in the 15 years that the veteran porn star and the legendary bondage filmmaker have lived, swung and shot here, but the bed is...@ 3:47 AM On Thu, November 13 -
The King's Roost Urban Farm and DIY Shop Now Open in Silver Lake
If you live in Los Angeles and you're interested in hobbies like raising chickens or baking with locally milled flour, you've got to drive around and do lots of online research just to start out. Roe Sie did that, too, when he first got serious about fermenting foods and setting...@ 10:14 AM On Fri, November 7 -
Henry Rollins: The Doors Achieved Something More Than Just Music
Los Angeles is a city where the eclectic and surreal often mix freely. There are so many scenes to make: If you do it just right, you can see and experience a lot in a short time. Now and then, my schedule is such that I attend multiple events in...@ 4:00 AM On Thu, November 13 -
Weekend DUI Crackdown Starts Tonight in Koreatown (Again!)
When it comes to drunk driving crackdowns, it's pretty clear the Los Angeles Police Department has its favorite neighborhoods. Whiter, wealthier areas of the city, represented by the department's West Los Angeles, Pacific and West Valley divisions, don't seem to be targeted half as much as South L.A. and the...@ 9:03 AM On Thu, November 13 -
5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Israeli Company Dancing About Community
This week's dance shows include a collaborative work from L.A. Contemporary Dance, dance about community from Israel and JazzAntiqua celebrating American jazz. 5. High voltage to low watt dance After an opening weekend jam-packed with energized dance, the debut edition of the performance festival Alternate Currents takes a more reflective turn...@ 3:44 AM On Thu, November 13
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Election Results and Voter Guides: Readers Respond
You Ignorant Sluts California's election results brought out the fury and glee in L.A. Weekly readers — in particular, the defeat of Proposition 46, a plan to raise the medical malpractice cap ("Consumer Watchdog Gets Blown Out on Health Care Propositions 45 and 46," Nov. 5) and the Weekly's "California...2014-11-13 01:00:00 -
Foxcatcher Has Gold Medal Acting From Channing Tatum and Steve Carell But the Plot Gets a Bronze
The du Pont family made its fortune selling gunpowder during the War of 1812, and soldiered on to invent everything ever worn by a cop: Kevlar, nylon, polyester, synthetic rubber. If you've cooked on Teflon pans, that money's theirs, too. That means you've supported American patriotism, or at least heir...2014-11-13 01:00:00 -
Rosewater Is Outraged, Cinematic — Even Funny
During a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian journalist who, earlier that year, had been imprisoned in Iran for 118 days on espionage charges, Jon Stewart said, "We hear a lot about the banality of evil, but so little about the stupidity of evil." Or about its...2014-11-13 01:00:00 -
Beyond the Lights Is Familiar But Cutting
Tales of fame and its trappings — and the way they're never enough to build a life — are as old as show business itself. Maybe for that reason, almost any story about discovering the hollowness of fame is written off as a cliché. But what's the difference, really, between...2014-11-13 01:00:00 -
The Homesman Brings a Lost America to Life
Tales of the Old West continue to make up a significant portion of our cultural narrative, mostly because we still like to comfort ourselves with stories showing that ours is a land of opportunity. Making the trek to the American frontier promised a new life or, at the very least,...2014-11-13 01:00:00 -
Through a Lens Darkly's Thomas Allen Harris Explains Why We Must Look Anew at Images of Black America
It’s been almost 60 years since African-American teenager Emmett Till was beaten, tortured and murdered by white men for having allegedly spoken to a white woman. His mother’s decision to hold an open-casket funeral so that the world could see — and photographers could document — the brutality inflicted on...2014-11-11 15:35:00 -
Readers Respond: Occupied Over Obamacare
Gene Maddaus' look at Proposition 45 on the Nov. 4 ballot, and whether it could severely complicate the success of the Affordable Care Act, ("In California, Consumer Watchdog's Prop 45 Challenges Obamacare — From the Left" Oct. 31) — created both fury and gratitude. Enduris1 writes, "This article is so...2014-11-06 01:00:00 -
10 Movies We Recommend at AFI Fest
Once again, AFI Film Fest brings L.A. the highlights of film festivals from around the world, in addition to overlooked indies that have flown under the radar. Of the 118 films in the fest, here are 10 that our critics think are worth watching: '71 If you aren't already familiar...2014-11-06 01:00:00
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